Month: September 2015

I discovered Andrea Dworkin pretty recently, and her writing is amazing for its hatred of euphemism. A profile of her by Ariel Levy compares her to Malcolm X: And Dworkin’s friends could forgive her for her anger because of what it had earned her. “This is dangerous but I will say it: I think Andrea…

I like Andrea Dworkin. As a man, I read both Intercourse and Pornography, and I didn’t feel threatened. They were immediate favorites. Apparently that’s not normal? It was like…it’s so great that somebody wrote these things down. I think people don’t like Andrea Dworkin because she said the truth, and the truth is sordid, and…

I have to say, this article by Timothy Snyder is some high-quality disinformation: “Holocaust history misunderstood: It has provided moral cover for the wars in Iraq and Ukraine.” It opens with the story of a German police captain who saved a Jewish family in Germany before mass-murdering Jews in Ukraine. The major gimmick is playing…

My day job is in the field of web security. I assess websites for vulnerabilities. In other words, I imagine I’m a hacker and then look for bugs that could theoretically be used in a scam. I engage in some of the same activities as IRL “cyber terrorists,” but I’m doing it as part of…

Back in May, a white lady named Jenna Glatzer wrote in the Washington Post about spontaneously joining a Black Lives Matter march that was passing through. Get off the sidewalk, I told myself. Prove you care by moving your feet. And so I did. Awkwardly at first, because I didn’t know how to navigate the…